The Novels of Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe is known as the father of the English novel. Virginia Woolf described Moll Flanders and Roxana as ‘among the few novels … one can call indisputably great’. Robinson Crusoe is one of the most enduring characters in English literature. Daniel Defoe wrote ten novels including two lesser known sequels to Robinson Crusoe. This is the first authoritative scholarly edition of all his novels. Carefully selected copy texts are supported by extensive new editorial material explaining the novels’ publishing history and details of later parodies, sequels and adaptations.

Novels of Daniel Defoe is part of Pickering & Chatto’s major forty-four volume publishing project The Works of Daniel Defoe, published under the general editorship of leading Defoe scholars W R Owens and P N Furbank. Extensive editorial cross-referencing places the novels within the context of Defoe’s non-fiction, most pertinently his behaviour manuals and religious writings.Novels of Daniel Defoe will be invaluable to scholars researching Eighteenth-Century Literature and History and the History of the Novel.

• The first modern scholarly critical edition of all of Defoe’s novels
• Brings together all three parts of Robinson Crusoe and examines their relationship
• Editorial material includes a substantial introduction to each novel, full explanatory endnotes, textual notes, and a consolidated index in volume 10

Contents

Part I
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), edited by W R Owens
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), edited by W R Owens
Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720), edited by G A Starr
Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720), edited by N H Keeble
The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton (1720), edited by P N Furbank

Part II
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (1722), edited by Liz Bellamy
A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), edited John Mullan
The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col. Jacque (1722), edited by Maurice Hindle
The Fortunate Mistress (1724), edited by P N Furbank
A New Voyage Round the World (1724), edited by John McVeagh

Related titles

• A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe
• Defoe's Review 1704–13
• A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe
• Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe
• The Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe
• The Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe
• Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe

Leaflets

• The Novels of Daniel Defoe: colour leaflet
• The Novels of Daniel Defoe: printable leaflet

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